Once-a-year Software Statement for Fiscal Calendar year (FY) 2021

This see is subject to availability of funding.

 The Community Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade announces an open competition for organizations to post programs in reaction to issuance of this Annual System Statement (APS).

 Closing Date for Programs:

  1. Initially Round – April 18, 2021*
  2. 2nd Spherical – Might 18, 2021

* Note: Proposals will be reviewed and grants issued on a rolling basis, so make sure you do not wait around until the deadline to post your application. It is doable that the Community Affairs Segment (PAS) will have no remaining cash soon after the evaluate panel goes by means of the proposals acquired for the duration of the Initially Spherical.

System Functionality Period:

Proposed projects should usually be finished in 6-12 months, or up to 18 months for bigger, much more complicated assignments. (This contains the time for assessment and evaluation.)

 Priority Location:

Serbia. Take note: PAS Belgrade strongly urges possible candidates to think about submitting proposals with pursuits concentrating on contributors or audiences in cities and towns in Serbia moreover Belgrade.

 Software Objectives: 

PAS welcomes proposals for creative, participating assignments that line up with the U.S. Embassy’s principal goals. That incorporates strengthening the Serbian-U.S. partnership and detailing U.S. lifestyle, culture, values, and insurance policies to Serbian audiences. The Embassy is also functioning with Serbia’s federal government, civil modern society, enterprise local community, and other associates on: advertising economic growth and combating mind drain strengthening democracy, which includes as a result of supporting civic participation a no cost push, and human legal rights and advancing regional security and cooperation. Progress in those people parts really should help Serbia on the route towards its said objective of European Union (EU) membership.

 Please be informed that assignments funded by means of this APS have to include an American element. That could require a relationship or partnership concerning Serbian and American companies or institutions. Maybe an American skilled will choose section, in human being or almost, in your venture. Activities may possibly spotlight or analyze shared Serbian-American values, national passions, etc. You may integrate a U.S. tactic or technique you have acquired about to addressing an challenge or challenge struggling with your group, institution, or career.

 Grant functions may possibly choose any number of types, which include academic competitions, spelling bees, summer camps (concentrated on language analyze, sports activities, etcetera), cross-border exchanges, conferences, workshops, classes, curriculum development, exhibits, hackathons or app development, on the internet projects, mock trials or moot court docket competitions, simulations and job-actively playing actions (e.g., Product Congress, Model United Nations), film or theater festivals, performances, or other functions.

 Jobs really should get started no previously than 1 May 2021, and should really start no later on than 1 May 2022, i.e., about a 12 months from now.  All things to do and your analysis or evaluation of the task must be finished within 18 months. 

 Pursuits should really focus on audiences in Serbia.  However, applicants can definitely include things like members or associates from neighboring nations of the Western Balkans, assuming that would make sense in phrases of your project’s objectives.  (See “Participants and Audiences” under.)

Precedence Themes:

 

  • Combating Mind Drain: By way of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and/or Tourism Advertising.
  • Equivalent Option for Men and women with Disabilities: Inclusion and Advocacy in Education, Workforce, Civic Participation, and Social Conversation.
  • Human Legal rights.
  • Serbian-American Ties.
  • Regional Cooperation / Locating Joint Solutions to Common Complications.
  • Training.

 Remember to note that PAS usually will not fund cultural or athletic functions, including journey to Serbia by American performers and athletes, except they provide just one of the Method Themes.

Contributors and Audiences:  

The challenge or dilemma you are searching at, your goals and targets, and the actions will assistance you figure out the individuals or major audiences for your undertaking. You may have secondary audiences or beneficiaries, way too. For instance, if you are instruction the teachers in a new instructing methodology, they are your primary audience and all their pupils who reward from the current methodology would be the secondary audience or closing beneficiary.

You should observe that the individuals or audiences for the proposed exercise should be citizens or authorized inhabitants of Serbia. See Funding Constraints below, nevertheless, concerning incorporating participants or audiences from other countries into the venture activity. Even if some participants arrive from a regional neighbor or from the U.S., PAS is generally interested in the members from Serbia and the project’s effects on them.

Funding Restrictions:  

You might NOT utilize for a grant from PAS if your challenge:

  • involves partisan political activity
  • requires charitable functions and/or the distribution of humanitarian assist
  • is a fundraising marketing campaign
  • is commercial in character, i.e., you or a job companion are generating funds from this project, or the exercise supports a present-day or potential organization or entrepreneurial enterprise.
  • entails the provision of health care or products and services, little one treatment, food subsidies, or other social products and services to populations.

Remember to be mindful, as well, that this funding opportunity aims to assistance specific initiatives with objectives which can be accomplished inside of a set timeframe. We will not accept apps which are aimed additional broadly at supporting your organization’s common or typical day-to-day pursuits and operations. Those will be deemed technically ineligible and will not be thought of for funding by the review committee.

For this distinct NOFO, grant funding can be utilized to go over the price of journey within just the area if attendance by individuals from neighboring nations around the world is an essential section of the job. As a normal rule, at the very least half the contributors in your undertaking should really continue to be citizens of Serbia. Please speak to PAS if you have even further concerns about projects involving contributors from other countries apart from Serbia.

Grant funding can similarly be utilised to address the expense of vacation in between the U.S. and Serbia for system individuals if that is an essential element of the job.

As a common rule, individuals or audiences should not be billed for using component in any PAS-funded activity.  If you envisage that your project activity will not be totally free for some rationale, you should call PAS although you are in the system of completing the application to see whether or not that could be allowed.  Depending on the funding resource, PAS may be capable to assist your undertaking, but only if you can demonstrate how the revenue produced will utilized to assistance the greater targets and clarify that your firm will profit from the modest entrance cost.

Funding Instrument Type:

Grant or Set Total Award 

Information Session:

PAS will maintain a digital data session on March 31, 2021 at 16:00 (4pm) CET to discuss this funding option and to remedy thoughts from potential candidates. To be part of the info session, you should sign up at: http://little bit.ly/3b5OBKU. If you come about to skip that on the internet session for any reason, we will provide a link to the recording on the web-site.

All the necessary application sorts necessary down below are available on line by using the Connected Files Tab and at https://rs.usembassy.gov/once-a-year-plan-statement-for-fiscal-12 months-2021/.  We do not deliver out hardcopy versions of the software packages.

All application supplies must be submitted by e mail to [email protected].

If PAS does not obtain a finish venture proposal at the above address by the deadline, it will be considered technically ineligible and will not be deemed for funding.

Be sure to examine for information on other PAS funding possibilities on the U.S. Embassy web site at: https://rs.usembassy.gov/education-lifestyle/grants-courses/.